Being part of the printer industry in the UK, it’s been impossible to miss the advances of 3D printing in a myriad of industries. From a design, medicinal, creative, and progressive point of view, the printers offer an incredible opportunity for major technological steps. Even NASA considers their immense potential vital for future journeys through space – in the form of 3D printed food, amongst other areas.
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Innovation in 3d printing started to show up from the 1990s with the real surge in the activity around this technology happening in the last 5 years. For those who are interested in 3D printing and its patents, Gridlogics Technologies, a software products company has shared some interesting results from a recent report on analysis of patenting activity around 3D-Printing from 1990-Current.
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3D Printing is spreading across all continents. Unlike other industrialisation processes, 3D printing follows a radically different logic and one of its main strengths is de-localization of production. That means that, much like mobile phones, the countries that can benefit the most from it – and are sometimes most receptive to it – are those that are currently less industrialised.
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Econolyst, a global additive manufacturing & 3D printing consultancy and research firm based in the UK, has launched what will now be an annual survey — the Big 3D Printing Survey. With the aim of drilling down into the industry, specifically users of 3D printers and 3D printing services and what motivates them, the goal is to understand how the market is growing — something I think we can all agree has been happening pretty fast over the last two years.
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